Reps aspirant asks court to affirm candidature

A CONTESTANT in the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries for the Adavi/Okehi Federal Constituency Suleiman Kokori Abdulkarim has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja to enforce his candidature.

    Abdulkarim claimed that he scored 413 votes, while the runner up Isiaka Jamiu scored 9 and Ajana Kabiru polled 5 votes while 2 votes were invalid out of the total 429 delegates.

    He therefore expressed dismay that the name of the contestant with the least number of votes would be used to allegedly substitute his own name that actually won the primary election.

     He prayed the court to ask INEC to refrain from recognizing Ajanah as the duly elected candidate of the APC in respect of Adavi/Okehi Federal constituency pending the hearing and determination of the motion in notice.

    He also prayed for an accelerated hearing of the suit by abridging the time the defendants are to enter appearance from 30 days to 7 days from the service of the processes in the suit on the defendants.

     Ruling on the motion, the presiding Judge Justice Abdu Kafarati granted the prayer for accelerated hearing while prayer two that has to do with an injunction for INEC not to recognize the defendant was refused.